Day 2 At Ikueikan

Today as we arrived at school we prepared to teach a few classes during 2nd and 4th periods. We were given some computer time to contact home and do what we need to do. We then moved into the Ikueikan music room where we had a class of juniors in highschool to teach the basics of our group games to. Tyler and I taught three groups a wordsearch where I held a picture and he would say the word and explain the importance of each item in the pictures. When we got to group 2, which was a group composed of mostly boys, we split them up into two teams to make the wordsearch interesting for our older students. Later in the day we went to the Hatono farm, where our farm guides and their translator Wendy served us Japanese barbecue and Yakisoba for lunch, which was fried noodles with grilled pork and chicken, along with potatoes and carrots. After lunch we made butter out of one ounce of cream and an equal amount of milk. Our guides prepared the ingredients for us and we had to shake the bottles for about five minutes. We then spread it on brown rice crackers, which were amazing. They also had a cow drawing contest followed by Brittiny and the very nice lady playing Sakura, Brittiny on the flute and the lady on the harmonica.  It was a great cultural experience!
Javen